In a video posted on YouTube, called Web 2.0: the machine is Us/ing us, Michael Wesh, an assistant professor of anthropology at Kansas City state University declares that Web 2.0 leads us to rethink copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetoric, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, and ultimately ourselves.
At Studio XX, we thought it would be a good idea to discuss and try to clarify the implications of Web 2.0. What defines it? Does it really have, and will it continue to have such an important impact on our lives? How does it differ from the previous forms of Internet and what new tools does it put to our disposal? Theses are some of the questions Marie Chantal Turgeon and Miriam Verburg will address during a conversation at Studio XX on Saturday March 31st 2007. Come and join us for some coffee and croissants, from 11:00am till 1:30pm, to find out more and take part to the conversation.
$12 / $10 for members
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Bio Marie-Chantale Turgeon:
Marie-Chantale Turgeon, Founder & creative director, meïdia, www.meidia.ca, Montreal QC
Entrepreneur and blogger, promoting the best around pop culture and indie music on her bilingual Vu d’ici – Seen from here blog, Marie-Chantale is a well known communicator and trend observer in the development of the ever expanding medium that is the internet, not without her artistic point of view, which makes her a part of this new indie subculture. Recent recognitions are coming from publications such as Spin Magazin, Elle Canada, The Gazette, La Presse and Radio-Canada.
In 2005 she founded meïdia, a studio specialized in creating outstanding products, concepts and strategies using new web technologies. On the edge of Quebec’s Web 2.0 scene, she has recently done work for Musique Plus, Radio-Canada, Le Cirque du Soleil, Ubisoft Montreal and Tellabs Chicago, and launched Stars-of-the-Web, Canada’s first text, audio and video blogging platform.
She’s regularly invited as guest expert on various events relating to web technologies (ADISQ, Festival Nouveau Cinéma, Mutek, Webcom 2006, Future of Music Policy Summit, ONF, Radio-Canada Le Point, Radio-Canada Bandeapart.fm, CBC Sounds like Canada).
www.mcturgeon.com/blog
www.stars-of-the-web.com
Bio Miriam Verburg:
Miriam Verburg is a web designer, coordinator of the Digital Literacy Project at Atwater Library and an MA student in Media studies at Concordia University. Through her work and study she enjoys finding ways to use creative technology for social change. When not working on, or studying the Internet, Miriam enjoys walking her dog, reading and making dinner for friends. She blogs at: www.flinkdesign.netblog/mir